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Indian spacecraft preparing to enter Mars orbit on ambitious first attempt
NEW DELHI — With home-grown technology and a remarkably low budget of about $75 million, India was on course to become the first nation to conduct a successful Mars mission on its first try.
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India's Satellite Makes It to Mars' Orbit
Scientists broke into wild cheers as the orbiter maneuvered into its designated place around the red planet.
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The Elon Musk interview on Mars colonisation
Elon Musk argues that we must put a million people on Mars if we are to ensure that humanity has a future
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Elon Musk believes colonizing Mars will save humanity
You'd be excused for thinking Elon Musk is crazy. Even with his unlikely successes in rethinking electric vehicles and commercial spaceflight, the man's steadfast beliefs in the face of incredible...
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Could Martian Volcanoes Help With Search For Water On The Red Planet?
Could a Martian volcanic explosion show off the path to water? One research team thinks so. They analyzed volcanic rock samples on Earth and Mars and came up with a way of predicting which ones touched water during their formation. The Mars results are so far negative: no water using this method was found at…
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NASA putting the mars-bound astronauts in deep sleep
NASA plans to put the Mars-bound astronauts in deep sleep so as to lower the overall cost and make the conditions more feasible and economic for astronauts.
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India's Mars Orbiter Mission shows off first 3D images of Mars
Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) released the program's first 3D image of the planet. The image was uploaded to the mission's Facebook page.According to ISRO, the image was anaglyph 3D image was created using multiple pictures using the Mars Color Camera. To see the image, people will need to make 3D glasses, which the mission included how-to instructions on their Facebook page.
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Yes, the people going to Mars on a Dutch reality TV show will die
Mars One, an organization based in the Netherlands, has been recruiting amateur astronauts to send on a one-way, televised trip to Mars, with the hopes of building a colony there. The organization says that the technology to do this exists, or will be ready by the time of its expected 2022 launch date.
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NASA's Mars fleet braces for comet encounter
Comet Siding Spring is hurtling toward its Red Planet rendezvous with Mars, while NASA's Mars spacecraft are aiming their instruments at it and moving themselves out of harm's way.
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MIT study finds 'Mars One' passengers could die of starvation
Doctoral students at MIT have released a study claiming the 'Mars One' mission passengers could die of starvation.
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Comet takes near-miss route to Mars
One of Earth's closest neighbors is about to have a very narrow escape. A comet the size of a small mountain will whiz past Mars Sunday at a distance of less than 87,000 miles, a hair's breadth in astronomical terms.
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Once-in-a-million-years comet won't smash into Mars with dinosaur-killing force, but it will come mind-bogglingly close
The heavens are hosting an event this weekend that occurs once in a million years or so. A comet as hefty as a small mountain will pass mind-bogglingly close to Mars on Sunday, approaching within 87,000 miles at a speed of 126,000 mph.
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Cell-Like Structure Found within 1.3-Billion-Year-Old Martian Meteorite
A team of scientists from the United Kingdom and Greece led by Dr Elias Chatzitheodoridis of the National Technical University of Athens has found a mysterious oval structure embedded deep within a famous Martian meteorite called Nakhla.
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Comet Siding Spring causes an explosion on Mars
A comet from the farthest reaches of the solar system passed extremely close to Mars this weekend, giving astronomers a rare opportunity to study it.
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NASA orbiters hide behind Mars to avoid comet debris
A rare close flyby of a comet near Mars put NASA's orbiters in a potentially dangerous situation, but also allowed them to study the moving space object.
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In a Dome in Hawaii, a Mission to Mars
On the way to Mars, Neil Scheibelhut stopped by Walmart for mouthwash and dental floss. “We’re picking up some last-minute things,” he said via cellphone last Wednesday afternoon from the store.
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What Mars Looked Like 4 Billion Years Ago
A new animation by NASA scientists illustrates what Mars may have looked like billions of years ago.
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Buzz Aldrin really wants to send people to Mars — and leave them there for a long time
Buzz Aldrin has been on a mission to the moon. But these days, the legendary Apollo 11 astronaut is fixated on one thing: Getting humankind to Mars — and keeping them there for a long time.
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Why Thousands Of People Are Willing To Die On Mars
More than 200,000 aspiring space explorers have volunteered for a one-way trip to Mars. Are they insane?
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All Dressed Up For Mars and Nowhere to Go
When Josh was 10 years old, he sat cross-legged on the floor in his parent’s neat, suburban home in Australia, enraptured. It was May 1996 and Andy Thomas had just stepped out of the space shuttle Endeavour and onto the tarmac of Runway 33 of the Kennedy Space Center. In his flight suit, bright orange against the blue of the sky, he talked in his clipped and measured British-sounding tones about seeing his hometown of Adelaide from the God-like vantage of space. These TV images would stick...
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